CPT Professional 2026 Edition Spiral

CPT 2026 Professional Edition is the definitive AMA-authored resource to help healthcare professionals correctly report and bill medical procedures and services. Healthcare professionals want accurate reimbursement. Payers want efficient claims processing. Correct reporting and billing of medical procedures and services begins with CPT 2026 Professional Edition from American Medical Association.

New illustrations added to the 2026 edition of CPT Professional:

• Anatomical and procedural illustrations — help improve coding accuracy and understanding of the anatomy and services/procedures discussed. For 2026, two new illustrations will be added to the code set. One will reflect modern medical practice in laparoscopy procedures, and the other to highlight the definition of each of the major coronary segments of the heart.
• Diversity-related illustrations — 19 more illustration continue advancing inclusive and equitable representation of a diverse range of skin tones, body shapes and sizes, ages, and genders.

Put the official CPT code guidelines at your fingertips with additional resources:

• A comprehensive index — locate codes related to a specific procedure, service, anatomic site, condition, synonym, eponym or abbreviation quickly.
• Enhanced code book table of contents — enable a quick search of the code book’s content for quick access.
• Complete list of the additions, deletions and revisions for CPT codes and code descriptors — Provide a summary and quick reference of the changes in the 2026 CPT code set without comparing editions.
• Comprehensive E/M code selection tables — aid physicians and coders in assigning the most appropriate evaluation and management codes.

Only the AMA, with the help of physicians and other experts in the healthcare community, creates and maintains the Current Procedural Terminology, CPT code set. No other code book has the accurate, complete official guidelines for the latest and current procedural terminology for procedures and services to help you code medical services and procedures properly.

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Get hundreds of code, guideline, and text changes for the year — including new diversity-related illustrations.

Recognizing that racism is a threat to the advancement of health equity and a barrier to appropriate medical care, as well as the power of images in contributing and limiting what bodies physicians, medical professionals, and students learn to see and define as normal and standard, the CPT 2026 Professional Edition will continue to enhance inclusivity by featuring 19 more diversity-related illustrations to counter a deep-seated, culturally, and systemically biased norm. These diversity-related images continue advancing inclusive and equitable representation of a diverse range of skin tones, body shapes and sizes, ages, and genders in our medical educational resources for everyone who uses this CPT code book in their daily work, practice, and education.

The CPT 2026 Professional Edition spiral code book features the following enhancements:

• CPT Changes, CPT Assistant, and Clinical Examples in Radiology citations — provides cross-referenced information in popular AMA resources that can enhance your understanding of the CPT code set.
• Coding tips throughout each section — improve understanding of the nuances of the code set.
• Multiple appendices — offer additional information for modifiers; add-on codes; images of vascular families; re-sequenced codes, MAAAs and PLA services, list of artificial intelligence (AI) taxonomy for medical services and procedures described in the code set and classifying those codes into discrete categories of clinician-to-patient services (e.g., visit), clinician-to-clinician services (e.g., consultation), patient monitoring and digital diagnostic services; guidance for classifying various AI applications (e.g., expert systems, machine learning, algorithm-based services) for medical services and procedures into assistive, augmentative, and autonomous categories; and codes used for synchronous real-time interactive audio-only telemedicine services.
• Section-specific table of contents — provide a useful tool to navigate effectively and quickly through each section’s codes.
• Notes pages at the end of every code set section and subsection

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